By all means let the Democrats learn from Newt the fighter; but if they want to recapture power they need to learn from Newt the thinker, too.
Barack Obama's opponents view defeating healthcare reform as their ticket to recapturing power, with one Republican Senator infamously declaring that it would be the president's "Waterloo".
When socialists threatened to recapture power in 1963, President John F Kennedy, in the name of democracy and freedom, authorised another coup and, when Mayan peasants organised armed resistance, Washington's puppets embarked on a strategy of terror to suppress all opposition.
"Radical Moderation: Recapturing Power in Two-Party Parliamentary Systems" reads one recent article in the prestigious American Journal of Political Science about how a political party's reputation persists in between elections for countries with non-presidential systems.
The DMK won the 1967 assembly election and the Congress Party never managed to recapture power in the state since then.
West Indies, by contrast, has never recaptured the power that saw it dominate those early World Cups, much as Australia has towered over the recent ones.
Now Israel began to encourage the corrupt and pliant Fatah leaders to overthrow their religious political rivals and recapture power.
They talk of recapturing power from Europe, when for years they have been uncritical enthusiasts for federalism.
Disturbed by the sudden interruption of the careful balance between light and dark, four warriors were granted the power of the dark crystals to recapture the power of the light crystals.
Until that point Scotland had been competitive, although the Welsh pack had shown ominous signs of recapturing the power game which made them Six Nations champions in 2012 and 2013, particularly in the build-up to Liam Williams' opening try.
